In the next three weeks, we have a unique opportunity to make history: To forge a comprehensive agreement over Iran's nuclear energy program; and to end an unnecessary crisis that has distracted us from addressing together our common challenges, such as the horrifying events of past few weeks in Iraq.
We could have resolved the nuclear issue in 2005. But then, people didn't believe me when I said that Iranians are allergic to pressure.
The Bush administration torpedoed the deal by demanding that we abandon enrichment, altogether.
They then opted for pressure and sanctions. For 8 years.
The sanctions were crippling -- even deadly; literally.
Iranian cancer patients could not buy medicine with their own money, because banks around the world had been bullied by the US Treasury to avoid transferring Iranian funds.
But sanctions did not cripple our nuclear program.
Neither did the murder of our nuclear scientists, the sabotage of our nuclear facilities - with potentially disastrous environmental ramifications - or the repeated military threats.
In fact, they achieved exactly the opposite:
Insisting on no enrichment resulted in a 100-fold increase in our centrifuges: from less than 200 to almost 20,000;
Refusing to sell fuel for our American-built research reactor, forced us to produce our own fuel by increasing enrichment levels: from 3.5% to 20%;
Depriving Iranian cancer patients from medical radio-isotopes, compelled us to build a heavy water reactor, going from an idea then to a full-fledged plant, to be commissioned soon; and
Threats to bomb our nuclear facilities out of existence, obliged us to build Fordow, which is protected by our mountains.
Western governments cried foul, ignoring that they had brought this upon themselves.
As we approach July 20th, I feel compelled to warn again that pursuing a game of chicken in an attempt to extract last minute concessions cannot achieve anything better than what it achieved in 2005.
To those who continue to believe that sanctions brought Iran to the negotiating table, I can only say that pressure has been tried for the past 8 years, in fact for the past 35 years.
It didn't bring the Iranian people to kneel in submission.
And it will not now nor in the future.
We still have time to exit this spiral of escalation.
Try mutual respect. It works.
We are trying to reach a deal.
Not a good deal or a bad deal, but a doable and lasting deal.
And any deal, by definition, is the outcome of mutual understanding—not imposition by one side or the other.
We are willing to take concrete measures to guarantee that our nuclear program will always remain peaceful.
We still have time to put an end to the myth that Iran is seeking to build a bomb.
And we're backed by over 250 years of non-aggression to substantiate our assertion.
My government remains committed to ending this unnecessary crisis by July 20th. I hope my counterparts are, too.
My name isJavad Zarif, and this is Iran's message.

Like with the main releases of FIFA, Lionel Messi featured on promotional images and the title screen of the game. Arda Turan was announced as an ambassador for the game in Turkey on 27 August 2014, with Eden Hazard announced as another ambassador for the video game on 15 September 2014.

The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Cup Finals. 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.

The 20 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. The other World Cup winners are Germany and Italy, with four titles each; Argentina and inaugural winners Uruguay, with two titles each; and England, France and Spain, with one title each.

Chess World Cup

The Chess World Cup is the name given to a number of different chess tournaments. The format and significance of the tournaments has changed over the years.

History

In 1988–99, the Grandmasters Association organised a series of six high-ranking World Cup tournaments in the form of a 'Grand Prix'.

In 2000 and 2002 FIDE, the World Chess Federation, staged their "First Chess World Cup" and "Second Chess World Cup" respectively. These were major tournaments, but not directly linked to the World Chess Championship. Both the 2000 and 2002 events were won by Viswanathan Anand of India.

Since 2005, a different event of the same name has been part of the World Chess Championship cycle. This event is being held every two years. It is a 128-player knockout tournament, in the same style as the Tilburg tournament from 1992-94, or the 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004 FIDE World Championships.

The event was held in 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011 in Khanty-Mansiysk, and subsequently FIDE has given preference to bids for the Olympiad that also contain a bid for the preceding World Cup. During the 2015 finals of the World Cup, the main organizer commented "We received the right to host the Olympiad and then we were given an additional event – the World Cup."

The final tournament will involve 32 national teams, which include 31 teams determined through qualifying competitions and the automatically qualified host team. A total of 64 matches will be played in 12 venues located in 11 cities. The final is expected to take place in Moscow at the Luzhniki Stadium.

Host selection

The bidding procedure to host the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups began in January 2009, and national associations had until 2 February 2009 to register their interest. Initially, nine countries placed bids for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, but Mexico later withdrew from proceedings, and Indonesia's bid was rejected by FIFA in February 2010 after the Indonesian government failed to submit a letter to support the bid. During the bidding process, the three remaining non-UEFA nations (Australia, Japan, and the United States) gradually withdrew from the 2018 bids, and the UEFA nations were thus ruled out of the 2022 bid. As such, there were eventually four bids for the 2018 FIFA World Cup: England, Russia, Netherlands/Belgium, and Spain/Portugal.

2010 FIFA World Cup

The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's nationalassociation football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations; in 2004, the international football federation, FIFA, selected South Africa over Egypt and Morocco to become the first African nation to host the finals.

The matches were played in 10 stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the final played at the Soccer City stadium in South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg. Thirty-two teams were selected for participation via a worldwide qualification tournament that began in August 2007. In the first round of the tournament finals, the teams competed in round-robin groups of four teams for points, with the top two teams in each group proceeding. These 16 teams advanced to the knockout stage, where three rounds of play decided which teams would participate in the final.

Iran's Message: We Can Make History

In the next three weeks, we have a unique opportunity to make history: To forge a comprehensive agreement over Iran's nuclear energy program; and to end an unnecessary crisis that has distracted us from addressing together our common challenges, such as the horrifying events of past few weeks in Iraq.
We could have resolved the nuclear issue in 2005. But then, people didn't believe me when I said that Iranians are allergic to pressure.
The Bush administration torpedoed the deal by demanding that we abandon enrichment, altogether.
They then opted for pressure and sanctions. For 8 years.
The sanctions were crippling -- even deadly; literally.
Iranian cancer patients could not buy medicine with their own money, because banks around the world had been bullied by the US Treasury to avoid transferring Iranian funds.
But sanctions did not cripple our nuclear program.
Neither did the murder of our nuclear scientists, the sabotage of our nuclear facilities - with potentially disastrous environmental ramifications - or the repeated military threats.
In fact, they achieved exactly the opposite:
Insisting on no enrichment resulted in a 100-fold increase in our centrifuges: from less than 200 to almost 20,000;
Refusing to sell fuel for our American-built research reactor, forced us to produce our own fuel by increasing enrichment levels: from 3.5% to 20%;
Depriving Iranian cancer patients from medical radio-isotopes, compelled us to build a heavy water reactor, going from an idea then to a full-fledged plant, to be commissioned soon; and
Threats to bomb our nuclear facilities out of existence, obliged us to build Fordow, which is protected by our mountains.
Western governments cried foul, ignoring that they had brought this upon themselves.
As we approach July 20th, I feel compelled to warn again that pursuing a game of chicken in an attempt to extract last minute concessions cannot achieve anything better than what it achieved in 2005.
To those who continue to believe that sanctions brought Iran to the negotiating table, I can only say that pressure has been tried for the past 8 years, in fact for the past 35 years.
It didn't bring the Iranian people to kneel in submission.
And it will not now nor in the future.
We still have time to exit this spiral of escalation.
Try mutual respect. It works.
We are trying to reach a deal.
Not a good deal or a bad deal, but a doable and lasting deal.
And any deal, by definition, is the outcome of mutual understanding—not imposition by one side or the other.
We are willing to take concrete measures to guarantee that our nuclear program will always remain peaceful.
We still have time to put an end to the myth that Iran is seeking to build a bomb.
And we're backed by over 250 years of non-aggression to substantiate our assertion.
My government remains committed to ending this unnecessary crisis by July 20th. I hope my counterparts are, too.
My name isJavad Zarif, and this is Iran's message.

Iran's Message: We Can Make History

In the next three weeks, we have a unique opportunity to make history: To forge a comprehensive agreement over Iran's nuclear energy program; and to end an unnecessary crisis that has distracted us from addressing together our common challenges, such as the horrifying events of past few weeks in Iraq.
We could have resolved the nuclear issue in 2005. But then, people didn't believe me when I said that Iranians are allergic to pressure.
The Bush administration torpedoed the deal by demanding that we abandon enrichment, altogether.
They then opted for pressure and sanctions. For 8 years.
The sanctions were crippling -- even deadly; literally.
Iranian cancer patients could not buy medicine with their own money, because banks around the world had been bullied by the US Treasury to...

Iran's Message: We Can Make History

In the next three weeks, we have a unique opportunity to make history: To forge a comprehensive agreement over Iran's nuclear energy program; and to end an unn...

In the next three weeks, we have a unique opportunity to make history: To forge a comprehensive agreement over Iran's nuclear energy program; and to end an unnecessary crisis that has distracted us from addressing together our common challenges, such as the horrifying events of past few weeks in Iraq.
We could have resolved the nuclear issue in 2005. But then, people didn't believe me when I said that Iranians are allergic to pressure.
The Bush administration torpedoed the deal by demanding that we abandon enrichment, altogether.
They then opted for pressure and sanctions. For 8 years.
The sanctions were crippling -- even deadly; literally.
Iranian cancer patients could not buy medicine with their own money, because banks around the world had been bullied by the US Treasury to avoid transferring Iranian funds.
But sanctions did not cripple our nuclear program.
Neither did the murder of our nuclear scientists, the sabotage of our nuclear facilities - with potentially disastrous environmental ramifications - or the repeated military threats.
In fact, they achieved exactly the opposite:
Insisting on no enrichment resulted in a 100-fold increase in our centrifuges: from less than 200 to almost 20,000;
Refusing to sell fuel for our American-built research reactor, forced us to produce our own fuel by increasing enrichment levels: from 3.5% to 20%;
Depriving Iranian cancer patients from medical radio-isotopes, compelled us to build a heavy water reactor, going from an idea then to a full-fledged plant, to be commissioned soon; and
Threats to bomb our nuclear facilities out of existence, obliged us to build Fordow, which is protected by our mountains.
Western governments cried foul, ignoring that they had brought this upon themselves.
As we approach July 20th, I feel compelled to warn again that pursuing a game of chicken in an attempt to extract last minute concessions cannot achieve anything better than what it achieved in 2005.
To those who continue to believe that sanctions brought Iran to the negotiating table, I can only say that pressure has been tried for the past 8 years, in fact for the past 35 years.
It didn't bring the Iranian people to kneel in submission.
And it will not now nor in the future.
We still have time to exit this spiral of escalation.
Try mutual respect. It works.
We are trying to reach a deal.
Not a good deal or a bad deal, but a doable and lasting deal.
And any deal, by definition, is the outcome of mutual understanding—not imposition by one side or the other.
We are willing to take concrete measures to guarantee that our nuclear program will always remain peaceful.
We still have time to put an end to the myth that Iran is seeking to build a bomb.
And we're backed by over 250 years of non-aggression to substantiate our assertion.
My government remains committed to ending this unnecessary crisis by July 20th. I hope my counterparts are, too.
My name isJavad Zarif, and this is Iran's message.

In the next three weeks, we have a unique opportunity to make history: To forge a comprehensive agreement over Iran's nuclear energy program; and to end an unnecessary crisis that has distracted us from addressing together our common challenges, such as the horrifying events of past few weeks in Iraq.
We could have resolved the nuclear issue in 2005. But then, people didn't believe me when I said that Iranians are allergic to pressure.
The Bush administration torpedoed the deal by demanding that we abandon enrichment, altogether.
They then opted for pressure and sanctions. For 8 years.
The sanctions were crippling -- even deadly; literally.
Iranian cancer patients could not buy medicine with their own money, because banks around the world had been bullied by the US Treasury to avoid transferring Iranian funds.
But sanctions did not cripple our nuclear program.
Neither did the murder of our nuclear scientists, the sabotage of our nuclear facilities - with potentially disastrous environmental ramifications - or the repeated military threats.
In fact, they achieved exactly the opposite:
Insisting on no enrichment resulted in a 100-fold increase in our centrifuges: from less than 200 to almost 20,000;
Refusing to sell fuel for our American-built research reactor, forced us to produce our own fuel by increasing enrichment levels: from 3.5% to 20%;
Depriving Iranian cancer patients from medical radio-isotopes, compelled us to build a heavy water reactor, going from an idea then to a full-fledged plant, to be commissioned soon; and
Threats to bomb our nuclear facilities out of existence, obliged us to build Fordow, which is protected by our mountains.
Western governments cried foul, ignoring that they had brought this upon themselves.
As we approach July 20th, I feel compelled to warn again that pursuing a game of chicken in an attempt to extract last minute concessions cannot achieve anything better than what it achieved in 2005.
To those who continue to believe that sanctions brought Iran to the negotiating table, I can only say that pressure has been tried for the past 8 years, in fact for the past 35 years.
It didn't bring the Iranian people to kneel in submission.
And it will not now nor in the future.
We still have time to exit this spiral of escalation.
Try mutual respect. It works.
We are trying to reach a deal.
Not a good deal or a bad deal, but a doable and lasting deal.
And any deal, by definition, is the outcome of mutual understanding—not imposition by one side or the other.
We are willing to take concrete measures to guarantee that our nuclear program will always remain peaceful.
We still have time to put an end to the myth that Iran is seeking to build a bomb.
And we're backed by over 250 years of non-aggression to substantiate our assertion.
My government remains committed to ending this unnecessary crisis by July 20th. I hope my counterparts are, too.
My name isJavad Zarif, and this is Iran's message.

Iran's Message: We Can Make History

In the next three weeks, we have a unique opportunity to make history: To forge a comprehensive agreement over Iran's nuclear energy program; and to end an unnecessary crisis that has distracted us from addressing together our common challenges, such as the horrifying events of past few weeks in Iraq.
We could have resolved the nuclear issue in 2005. But then, people didn't believe me when I said that Iranians are allergic to pressure.
The Bush administration torpedoed the deal by demanding that we abandon enrichment, altogether.
They then opted for pressure and sanctions. For 8 years.
The sanctions were crippling -- even deadly; literally.
Iranian cancer patients could not buy medicine with their own money, because banks around the world had been bullied by the US Treasury to avoid transferring Iranian funds.
But sanctions did not cripple our nuclear program.
Neither did the murder of our nuclear scientists, the sabotage of our nuclear facilities - with potentially disastrous environmental ramifications - or the repeated military threats.
In fact, they achieved exactly the opposite:
Insisting on no enrichment resulted in a 100-fold increase in our centrifuges: from less than 200 to almost 20,000;
Refusing to sell fuel for our American-built research reactor, forced us to produce our own fuel by increasing enrichment levels: from 3.5% to 20%;
Depriving Iranian cancer patients from medical radio-isotopes, compelled us to build a heavy water reactor, going from an idea then to a full-fledged plant, to be commissioned soon; and
Threats to bomb our nuclear facilities out of existence, obliged us to build Fordow, which is protected by our mountains.
Western governments cried foul, ignoring that they had brought this upon themselves.
As we approach July 20th, I feel compelled to warn again that pursuing a game of chicken in an attempt to extract last minute concessions cannot achieve anything better than what it achieved in 2005.
To those who continue to believe that sanctions brought Iran to the negotiating table, I can only say that pressure has been tried for the past 8 years, in fact for the past 35 years.
It didn't bring the Iranian people to kneel in submission.
And it will not now nor in the future.
We still have time to exit this spiral of escalation.
Try mutual respect. It works.
We are trying to reach a deal.
Not a good deal or a bad deal, but a doable and lasting deal.
And any deal, by definition, is the outcome of mutual understanding—not imposition by one side or the other.
We are willing to take concrete measures to guarantee that our nuclear program will always remain peaceful.
We still have time to put an end to the myth that Iran is seeking to build a bomb.
And we're backed by over 250 years of non-aggression to substantiate our assertion.
My government remains committed to ending this unnecessary crisis by July 20th. I hope my counterparts are, too.
My name isJavad Zarif, and this is Iran's message.

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Iron Bars

[Stephen:]What am I doing behind these iron barsNever robbed nor killed, never done no one harmYou put me in shackles, you place I in chainsSaid I'll never see the outside againYeah, Yeah[Julian:]I'm a prisoner locked up for whatFreedom of Speech ain't that all we've gotWounded pride my head held up highRebels for life, we rebel for the right[Stephen:]Let me out, let me outI'm an angry lionLet me out, let me outI'm an angry lionLet me out, let me outI'm an angry lionLet me out, let me outOh you crazy mother[Mr Cheeks:]Heyo, listen, took my freedom, my honor, my prideTo provide for my family I triedGots to prepare, cuz listenWe's here for the rideVision's blocked cause we locked insideIron barsTook my freedom, my honor, my prideTo provide for my family I triedGots to prepare, cuz listenWe's here for the rideVision's blocked cause we locked insideIron bars[Mr Cheeks:]Yo I was caught in the mix with nowhere to goRent need to be paid things moving slowI just want to get a deal and spit this flowSee ain't that the dream to live well and get doughYou looking for a change man there ain't no changingThis money, this gun, this drug exchangingAnd if you got seeds that makes you go even harderIf it ain't for them man then why even bother[Stephen:]You must think say man a spratAin't no back and belly ratWell man a lion, yeahYou must think say man a spratDon't play no back and belly ratWell man a lion, yeahMan a lion[Mr Cheeks:]Took my freedom, my honor, my prideTo provide for my family I triedGots to prepare, cuz listenWe's here for the rideVision's blocked cause we locked insideIron barsTook my freedom, my honor, my prideTo provide for my family I triedGots to prepare, cuz listenWe's here for the rideVision's blocked cause we locked inside[Spragga Benz:]Wanna take away my freedom wanna take away my lifeLock me up, fi what? likkle sensimilia and a knifeSo who a good feed mi youth dem eeh who a go care mi wifeYou a gwan like ghetto people n'have no rightsYow, You better let me out or else we gonna bruk out of hereGhetto pickney we a go load dem in a truck out of hereYou see any Rasta youth and need to puck out a hairYou luck out a here you got to duck out of hereCause like a vampire a lot of blood you suck out of hereYou tek way every cent and every buck out of hereAnd lock we up in a yu prison fi wi work out of hereWe a go bruk down all the wall and get the f**# out of here

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's KingSalman received Iraq's president in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after the Iraqi official visited the kingdom's rival, Iran... The state-run SaudiPressAgency released few details about Salih's talks with the monarch ... sanctions against Iran ... sanctions against Iran ... Copyright 2018 The Associated Press....

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s KingSalman received Iraq’s president in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after the Iraqi official visited the kingdom’s rival, Iran... The state-run SaudiPressAgency released few details about Salih’s talks with the monarch ... sanctions against Iran ... sanctions against Iran....

17 (Xinhua) -- Iran and Iraq on Saturday renewed their calls for close and "brotherly" ties despite fresh U.S ... with Iran to help the reconstruction of Iraq ...Besides, Salih said that Iraq is determined to expand comprehensive ties with Iran in his term, according to Iran's Press TV....